John BeckFilmography

Extreme Limits

Actors: Treat Williams, John Beck, Susan Blakely

Synopsis: Renegade adventurer Hunter (John Beck) and his daughter Nadia (Julie St. Claire) discover, in a remote Siberian cave, inventor Nikola Tesla's deadliest device: A machine that can turn human brain waves into explosions, big and small. While returning the doomsday device to civilization by means of Read More

Steel Chariots

Synopsis: From the folks who brought you Baywatch, the made-for-TV Steel Chariots was described by one critic as a combination of Dallas and The Dukes of Hazzard. At base, the story involves the intramural rivalries in a Texas auto-racing family, which extends to open warfare between the sponsors who back Read More

Hart to Hart: Secrets of the Hart

Actors: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers

Synopsis: The popular television detective duo from Hart to Hart reunites for another go-around in this made-for-television adventure movie. While the Harts (Robert Wagner and Stephanie Powers) attend a charity auction, they stumble upon an old locket with what may be a picture of Jonathan Hart's long-lost Read More

Touched By an Angel: Trust

Synopsis: Rookie cop Monica (Roma Downey) is partnered with veteran officer Zack Bennett (Joe Penny) on his first day back after recovering from a shooting. Zack's former partner Ben (Paul Rodriguez) is angry over the fact that Zack has demanded to be paired up with something else. What Ben doesn't know is Read More

Black Day, Blue Night

Actors: Mia Sara, Michelle Forbes, Gil Bellows, Tim Guinee, J.T. Walsh

Synopsis: Tough, world-weary wanderer Rinda travels throughout the Southwest working occasionally as a truck-stop cook. She is in one lonely town when she hooks up with sexy Bo Schrag. They have a brief affair, and she doesn't realize Bo is married until his plain wife shows up during one of their sessions Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Tribunal

Synopsis: The focus of this episode is O'Brien, who is arrested by the Cardassians on charges of smuggling and conspiracy. Though he is unaware of the charges levelled against him, O'Brien protests his innocence, to no avail, since the Cardassians have already found him guilty and sentenced him to death. Read More

Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, James Farentino, Billy Warlock, David Beron, Susan Blakely

Synopsis: For a couple of years during the mid '90s, the Menendez Brothers, Lyle and Erik, held the country's interest after they stood trial for cold-bloodedly killing their parents. The murders took place in L.A., where both victims had successful Hollywood careers. What shocked the nation was that the Read More

Last Time Out

Trade Winds

Synopsis: Two rival families clash for control of the Island of St. John in this mini-series. Caught in the middle of the conflict are two lovers, Ocean and Maxine, one from each family. Their secret rendezvous are already putting them both in jeopardy, but when Ocean is accused of killing Maxine's brother Read More

A Climate for Killing

Actors: John Beck, Steven Bauer, Katharine Ross, Phil Brock, Mia Sara

Synopsis: When a woman murdered over fifteen years ago is again found dead, a small-town Arizona policeman (John Beck) must solve the case without stepping on the tender toes of procedure, courtesy of a federal agent from Phoenix (Steven Bauer). ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Thursday's Child

Synopsis: Nancy Landon (Vera Miles) swoops down on Cabot Cove with the announcement that her son Steve (Richard Gilliland) had been fathered by the late husband of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). With this in mind, Nancy insists that Jessica is obligated to help clear Steve fraud and murder charges Read More

Hunter: Blind Ambition

Synopsis: McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) and her boyfriend, Judge Michael Hayworth (John Beck), are held captive by the brother (Harold Sylvester) of a convict who killed himself in prison. Their captor is convinced that the Judge, who refused to consider new evidence in his brother's case, is responsible for Read More

In the Cold of the Night

Synopsis: In the Cold of the Night is an above-average erotic thriller, directed with superb visual style by Nico Mastorakis, but plagued by an uneven, derivative plot. Photographer Scott Bruin (Jeff Lester) is very successful but begins to have frightening visions of himself murdering a beautiful woman. Read More

Fire and Rain

Actors: Charles Haid, Angie Dickinson, Tom Bosley, Robert Guillaume, Dean Jones

Synopsis: The terrible crash of Delta Airlines Flight 191 provides the basis of this made-for-TV drama-in-real life. The disaster occurred at Dallas in 1985 and during that fateful night many of the ordinary passengers, crew, and rescue workers became true heroes as they worked together to save lives. Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake

Actors: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, David Hasselhoff, William Katt

Synopsis: Raymond Burr, as ever, stars in this TV-movie continuation of the Perry Mason saga. Once more pulled out of semi-retirement, Perry takes on the case of a wealthy man (David Hasselhoff) accused of murdering his heiress wife. Of course, this has nothing to do with the Klaus von Bulow affair. As was Read More

Deadly Illusion

Actors: Billy Dee Williams, Vanity, Morgan Fairchild, John Beck, Joe Cortese

Synopsis: A gumshoe gets in deep kim-chi when he agrees to murder a fellow's wife in exchange for $25,000 up front. No sooner does he accept the money than he is running off to his intended victim to first warn her and then sleep with her. As soon as they finish making love, he learns that she was not the Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Limbo

Synopsis: Season Seven of Magnum, P.I comes to spectacular conclusion--one that was originally intended to be the series' final episode. Wounded in a violent shootout, the comatose Magnum (Tom Selleck) hovers between life and death. From his vantage point in "Limbo", Magnum tries to communicate with his Read More

Hunter: The Castro Connection

Synopsis: Hunter (Fred Dryer) is a witness to murder when his former partner, DEA agent Neil Jordan (John Beck), is gunned down before his eyes. But after attempting to chase down the killer, Hunter returns to the crime scene find that Jordan's body has disappeared. At this point the detective is plunged Read More

Peyton Place: The Next Generation

Synopsis: In this drama, set twenty years after the original saga, a woman comes to the tumultuous New England village to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her mother and discovers that the town's most respected citizens have been keeping a series of dark, disturbing secrets. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Sudden Death

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury is given a crash course in the nomenclature of football when she inherits a small percentage in a pro football team. She also stumbles upon a murder case (surprise!) when the team's much-hated owner is killed in the locker room . It's going to be tough to discern the Read More

The Great American Traffic Jam

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV farce, the urban phenomenon of the traffic jam and the effect it has on the lives of the participants is examined. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Flamingo Road

Actors: John Beck, Howard Duff, Cristina Raines

Synopsis: Ever anxious to enter the "nighttime serial" market engendered by Dallas, NBC commissioned Flamingo Road, a casual remake of the 1949 Joan Crawford film of the same name. The TV-movie pilot, which aired in May of 1980, introduces the dramatiis personae. Howard Duff plays the corrupt political boss Read More

The Time Machine

Synopsis: A progressive scientist builds a machine that allows him time travel in this adaptation of the classic from H.G. Wells. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Greatest Heroes of the Bible: Samson and Delilah

Synopsis: This video provides an excellent lesson about who can be trusted in life and which human values are the most important ones. In this Biblical story, Delilah's greed causes her to repeatedly betray Samson as she seeks to tell his enemies how his great strength can be taken away from him. At first Read More

Arthur Hailey's Wheels

Actors: Rock Hudson, Lee Remick, Blair Brown, John Beck, Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis: Another of the many Arthur Hailey literary properties which were transformed into TV miniseries in the 1970s, the five-part, ten-hour Wheels took place in Detroit sometime in the late 1960s. Rock Hudson starred as Adam Trenton, executive in charge of project development at the fictional Read More

The Other Side of Midnight

Actors: Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, Susan Sarandon, Raf Vallone, Clu Gulager

Synopsis: One woman's life of love and larceny is recounted in this soapy drama based on the best-selling novel by Sidney Sheldon. In the midst of WWII, innocent French girl Noelle Page (Marie-France Pisier) falls in love with dashing American pilot Larry Douglas (John Beck). When Larry is given new orders Read More

Audrey Rose

Actors: Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, John Beck, Susan Swift, Norman Lloyd

Synopsis: Audrey Rose is a "thinking man's" horror film, which in a way is unfortunate, since it tended to be ignored amidst the many spell-it-all-out scarefests of the late '70s. Marsha Mason and John Beck play Janice and Bill Templeton, a happily married couple, the parents of well-adjusted preteen Ivy (Susan Swift Read More

Sky Riders

Actors: James Coburn, Susannah York, Robert Culp, Charles Aznavour, Werner Pochath

Synopsis: In Sky Riders, the off-camera tale behind the film cast a more interesting story than the film itself: when a Greek electrician died during an explosion, the film's producer, Terry Morse Jr., was arrested by the Greek government, and executive producer Sandy Howard was detained in Greece for Read More

The Call of the Wild

Actors: John Beck

Synopsis: Unlike the 1935 film version of Jack London's 1897 novel Call of the Wild, which devoted most of its running time to a romance between Clark Gable and Loretta Young, this 1976 TV-movie version wisely remains faithful to the source. The star is a magnificent dog--part St. Bernard, part German Read More

The Big Bus

Actors: Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, René Auberjonois, Ned Beatty

Synopsis: The Big Bus is set aboard a nonstop, nuclear-powered luxury bus commandeered by Joseph Bologna. Naturally, Bologna is a tortured hero with a deep dark secret (he keeps insisting he didn't eat all those passengers on his last disastrous drive). Stockard Channing and Harold Gould play the designers Read More

Attack on Terror: The F.B.I. vs. The Ku Klux Klan

Actors: Ned Beatty, John Beck, George Grizzard, Rip Torn, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: Attack on Terror: The FBI Versus the Ku Klux Klan is a fact-based, two-part TV movie. The film is a dramatization of the murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. The FBI, personified herein by southern operative Wayne Rogers, is brought in to investigate the trio's Read More

Rollerball

Actors: James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams, John Beck, Moses Gunn

Synopsis: In the year 2018 violence has been outlawed and corporations have replaced government as the ruling party following the demise of politics. With the absence of war or conflict, a forcibly passive population's bloodlust is satisfied by a brutal new sport known as Rollerball. A high-octane melding Read More

Only God Knows

Actors: Louis Tanno

Synopsis: A priest, a rabbi, and a minister are attempting to keep a financially-strapped drug rehab center open, when the last bit of funding disappears. Desperate, they approach a sickly Mafia don and offer to absolve him of his sins in exchange for cash. Unfortunately, he dies before he can get them the Read More

Sidekicks

Synopsis: This comedy western is the failed pilot for a TV series based on the 1971 feature film Skin Game. Like the original, this tells the story of two bungling con artists, one white the other black, who ride around trying to collect an outlaw bounty and outsmart slave traders. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

The Law

Synopsis: This acclaimed muckraking drama by future Hollywood A-lister John Badham (Saturday Night Fever, WarGames) peels the lid off of the Los Angeles criminal justice system for a sobering glimpse of its many facets -- exploring every angle, from defense attorneys to solicitors to prosecutors. The Read More

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

Actors: James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan

Synopsis: A former friend betrays a legendary outlaw in Sam Peckinpah's final Western. Holed up in Fort Sumner with his gang between cattle rustlings, Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson) ignores the advice of comrade-turned-lawman Pat Garrett (James Coburn) to escape to Mexico, and he winds up in jail in Read More

Sleeper

Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck, Mary Gregory, Don Keefer

Synopsis: In 1973, health-food store owner Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) enters the hospital for a routine gall bladder operation. When he expires on the operating table, Miles' sister requests permission to cryogenically freeze her brother's body. After 200 years, Miles is unwrapped by a group of scientists Read More

Nightmare Honeymoon

Actors: Dack Rambo

Synopsis: Originally released as Nightmare Honeymoon, this lurid thriller stars Dack Rambo and Rebecca Diana Smith. Rambo plays a Vietnam vet (he's certainly got the right name for it), while Rebecca is cast as his new bride, an heiress. While on their honeymoon, the newlyweds witness a murder and Rebecca Read More

Paperback Hero

Actors: Elizabeth Ashley, John Beck, Keir Dullea, Dayle Haddon

Synopsis: A small-time athlete is suddenly confronted by the real world in this thoughtful comedy drama from Canada. Rick (Keir Dullea) is the star player on a semi-pro hockey team in a small town on the Canadian prairie. While Rick has to hold down a job in a hardware store to pay his rent, his skills on Read More

Lawman

Actors: Bill Brimley, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb, Sheree North, Joseph Wiseman

Synopsis: In Lawman, Burt Lancaster is Jered Maddox, a dedicated marshal with an inflexible adherence to upholding the law at all costs. Riding into a nearby town to pick up a group of local carousers who, during a drunken spree, killed an old man, Maddox meets up with Vincent Bronson (Lee J. Cobb). Bronson Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Missile

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Enemy agent James Reed (David Sheiner) intends to steal the plans for a new missile guidance system. The IMF is assigned to hoodwink Reed into pilfering a set of bonus plans. Endangering the mission is escaped mental patient Hecker (John Beck), who believes that IMF agent Dana is his former Read More

Mrs. Pollifax -- Spy

Synopsis: A widow finds her life unbearably dull and so becomes a volunteer CIA agent. She is sent to Mexico City for her first assignment and though her intentions are good, she ends up tossed into a jail. This was one of actress Rosalind Russel's final films and is sadly, considered among her very worst. Read More

Bonanza: What Are Pardners For?

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Slim Pickens

Synopsis: Innocent Hoss Cartwright is thrown in jail, suspected of complicity in a bank robbery. The real bandits are a pair of Easterners named Luke (John Beck) and Calvin (Hamilton Camp), who'd been drawn to the west after reading an abundance of dime novels. Hoping to live up to the exploits of their Read More

Lock, Stock and Barrel

Actors: Claude Akins

Synopsis: This TV movie is set in the old Northwest. Belinda J. Montgomery wants to marry young Tim Matheson, but her father (Claude Akins) is against it. Matheson takes matters in his own hands by "kidnapping" Belinda and heading for Oregon. With Montgomery's daddy and her goonish brothers in hot pursuit Read More

Bonanza: The Medal

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: Dean Stockwell guest-stars as Mathew, a former Northern war hero and Congressional Medal of Honor Winner, now living a pauper's existence in Nevada. Ben Cartwright comes to Mathew's aid when the man is victimized by Seth Nagel (Harry Townes), a Southerner determined to avenge the loss of his home Read More

The Silent Gun

Actors: Pernell Roberts

Synopsis: The Silent Gun refers to the weapon no longer toted by Westerner Lloyd Bridges. Once a notorious gunfighter, Bridges has vowed never to shoot again after nearly killing a little girl. Thus, when faced with evil town boss Pernell Roberts, Bridges must rely on his wits to come out on top. This Read More

Three in the Attic

Actors: Yvette Mimieux, Christopher Jones, Judy Pace, Maggie Thrett, Nan Martin

Synopsis: A modern Don Juan pays the price when he "two-times" three different women. Paxton Quigley (Christopher Jones) is the campus Casanova who sleeps with Caucasian coed Tobey (Yvette Mimieux), the black beauty Eulice (Judy Pace) and the Jewish hippie girl Jane (Maggie Thrett). The three women discover Read More

Cyborg 2087

Synopsis: This futuristic sci-fi film contains a strong message against communism. It begins in the year 2087 and presents a totalitarian world ruled by Cyborgs. They are half-machine and their are incapable of free thought. Cyborg Garth has a glitch and is a rebel who swipes a time machine and travels back Read More